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I dropped my pc. Should I be worried?

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Now I understand that I may be posting in the wrong section of the forum and that I worry too much. So the other day I dropped my PC after tripping while carrying it. Wasn't that big of a fall, just bent the screw for the side panel. I turned it on and it seems like everything is the same. The only thing I noticed is it sounded louder, but that could be in my head. Should I worry at all? It's been about two weeks and it's still on my mind. Thanks for the help.

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You probably screwed up a case fan or 2 but potentially other things as well. Run Aida64 and valley to ensure stability

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Check for physical damage, then run chkdsk -R...

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do bunch of stress testing and test your hdd individually use Windows and other memory checker programs

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do bunch of stress testing and test your hdd individually use Windows and other memory checker programs

I have been using it for two weeks and feel like there has been no difference. I will stress test when I get back to my PC. Do you think anything is wrong?

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I suppose it wasn't running when you dropped it. Then your drives shouldn't have been affected.

 

Check that your cables (inside) are connected all the way, and not colliding with fan blades.

 

 

Check for physical damage, then run chkdsk -R...

 

 

You probably screwed up a case fan or 2 but potentially other things as well. Run Aida64 and valley to ensure stability

Alright, for you people. I will say what I have recently said just in case you don't have the full story. I was walking up the stairs and tripped up the stairs. It never really fell a great height it just had a pretty good impact. Anyways, I have been playing games on it for two weeks and feel as if it is working absolutely fine. No game problems and no different FPS or anything different. Haven't checked temps or anything but I will. I personally don't believe anything is wrong but instead I am just paranoid about my PC because it is my baby. If you have any recommendations to do besides benchmarking, please leave note.

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Now I understand that I may be posting in the wrong section of the forum and that I worry too much. So the other day I dropped my PC after tripping while carrying it. Wasn't that big of a fall, just bent the screw for the side panel. I turned it on and it seems like everything is the same. The only thing I noticed is it sounded louder, but that could be in my head. Should I worry at all? It's been about two weeks and it's still on my mind. Thanks for the help.

I did the exact same thing a few weeks ago to my LAN computer, and have had no issues.  That was a Corsair 350D, though.  

The most likely thing to be damaged is the physical hard drives, aside from that it's probably cosmetic.  Only time will tell, with regards to any component.  You may have something fail from this, but I don't think that it's likely.  

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i dropped my case for about 5" and didn't even bother checking any..

because i don't know how to do it.lol

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